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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive.

This series of 9 segments features Lindependence 08 organizers Larry Cafiero and Ken Starks talking about what Lindependence 08 is. Namely, it is a series of installfests and demos held at the Felton Presbyterian Church. The purpose of these events is to persuade the entire town of 6,000 people in Felton to move over to Free Open Source Software. Ken and Larry acknowledge that this will be a tough job, but they talk about why they want to give it a try, and how far toward that goal they think they will go.

The transcript for this segment can be found here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_b_01_001.txt

In this segment, Ken and Larry reflect on the first of these Lin 08 events. The two men are optimistic the first event, which was held shortly before this interview was shot. At the end of this segment, Ken has a funny story about the reaction that most new GNU-Linux users have when they see that they can actually run an operating system out of their CD-ROM drives. They generally want to know if it is legal, and how Ken can get away with giving them these CDs.

This interview stops abruptly, because dvgrab chunks out video into 4.51 minute segments equalling 1 GB by default. dvgrab is the Free Open Source Software program that we use to capture this footage. There is a saying in the Free Open Source Software society: "Let the code decide". We have let the code decide the default file size for most of the footage up here on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. If you want to see the rest of these interviews, go here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_002.ogg

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_003.ogg

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_004.ogg

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_005.ogg

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_006.ogg

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_007.ogg

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_008.ogg

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_009.ogg

This series of 9 segments was shot in the very beautiful Felton Presbyterian Church on highway 9 in lovely "downtown" Felton, California, a town with only 1 traffic light.

This series of 9 segments is part of the Twin Brothers Of Different Mother series, which is a joke about how these two men are very different, and yet collaborating closely to advance freedom in cyberspace. As this series shows, Ken Starks identifies himself as staunchly conservative, and Larry Cafiero identifies himself as intensely liberal. One of the fundamental themes of the Digital Tipping Point is that freedom in cyberspace is a such an important value that people of many languages, nations, and backbrounds who are otherwise foreign and maybe even otherwise antagonistic toward one another can and do come together to work for freedom in cyberspace. In short, Free Software builds bridges for peace, prosperity, and creativity around the world. This series of segments captures that phenomenon in the microcosm of the tiny town of Felton, California and the work of these two Twin Brothers Of Different Mothers.

Ken Starks blogs regularly under the pen name of helios.

This footage is raw, rough edited video. It is our source code. It has no music, no transitions, and no special effects. It is offered to the world as the raw material for you to make your own movie about Free Open Source Software.

If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeld@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.

The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com.

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